| Description |
1 online resource (x, 284 p.) : ill. |
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Oxford paperback reference |
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Oxford paperback reference.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This dictionary features the entertaining histories behind hundreds of eponyms, such as bowdlerize (from the censorious Thomas Bowdler), bikini from the atoll, and the Salisbury steak, a dish of hamburger and brown gravy named after James H. Salisbury, an English physician who promoted a diet of ground beef. There are hundreds more - discover to whom we owe the terms hooker, sideburn, zeppelin, the cardigan sweater, pamphlet, robot, and argyle socks. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
English language -- Eponyms -- Dictionaries.
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Names, Personal -- Dictionaries.
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Biography -- Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Print version : 9780195093544 |
| ISBN |
9780199891115 (ebook) : No price |
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